Thanks, I did see your other post about locking the mirror but didn't have time last night to work it out. I've since seen you can do it on the D3100 but it's for cleaning purposes and not sure you can do it while taking a photo.

The lens was the 55-300, was on a tripod with VR switched off. I think this one was manually focused through magnified live view but there was little difference between that and an autofocused one.

_________________"I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order" - Eric Morecambe________________________________________D7000 and too many lenses.